The World Wushu Championships ( WWC ) is an international sports championship hosted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) for the sports of wushu taolu and sanda (sanshou). The tournament has been held biennially since 1991 and is the pinnacle event of the IWUF. The World Wushu Championships also coincides with the IWUF Congress and various committee meetings. This competition additionally serves as the qualification event for the Taolu World Cup and the Sanda World Cup .
14-712: Starting in 1985, the Chinese Wushu Association began to host the International Invitational Wushu Championships as a ways of standardizing the sport of wushu on a global scale. After the formation of the IWUF at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, the 1991 World Wushu Championships were quickly organized to be held in the same city. With the desire of reaching a wider global audience and to achieve recognition by
28-655: A sanda competition in 1988. At the 1985 competition held in Xi'an, a preparatory committee for the formation of the International Wushu Federation was formed by the CWA which included other international promoters and practitioners. Since the formation of the IWUF, the CWA continued to be a major influence on the progression of wushu worldwide in the creation of competition regulations, routines, and standards. In 2020, amid criticism of traditional martial arts,
42-689: Is Zhang Qiuping who is also the IWUF Secretary General. International Wushu Federation The International Wushu Federation ( IWUF ) is an international sport organization and the governing body for wushu in all its forms worldwide. The IWUF is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and is also a member of the ARISF , GAISF , FISU , IWGA , and the ISF . The main governing bodies of
56-471: Is the governing body of wushu in all of its forms throughout China . Since its founding in 1958, it has been credited with the development and standardization of modern wushu and sanda throughout the world. The Central Guoshu Institute was created in 1928 by the Kuomintang as a means of standardizing the practice of wushu throughout China. It closed in 1948 due to a lack of funding. In 1958 under
70-581: The Chinese Communist Party , the Chinese Wushu Association was founded in Beijing. The first chairman was Li Menghua. That year, the first National Games of China were held where wushu was an official event. In the mid to late 1980s, the CWA organized a series of competitions known as the International Invitational Wushu Championships which included 1985, 1986, and 1988 renditions for taolu competition, as well as
84-471: The International Olympic Committee , the 3rd and 4th world championships were organized in the United States and Italy, respectively, the first major international wushu competitions outside of Asia. At the 6th WWC in 2001, the competition administered doping tests for the first time. In 2007, the 9th WWC served as the qualification of the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament . The same competition along with
98-462: The 11th Asian Games , the IWUF was established after four years of development by a preparatory committee from the Chinese Wushu Association (CWA). Since 1991, the IWUF has held 15 World Wushu Championships and has helped over 100 federations ( List of member federations External ) around the globe to organize their own championships and national tournaments. The IWUF has also been in an active pursuit of olympic wushu after being fully recognized by
112-608: The 12th and 15th WWCs served as qualification for Wushu at the World Games .The 16th WWC was rescheduled from 2021 to 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . The 1st WWC consisted of changquan , daoshu , jianshu , gunshu , qiangshu , nanquan , taijiquan , and men's sanda (originally called sanshou). Starting in 1993 with the 2nd WWC, the IWUF compulsory routines were to be used in taolu competition. In 1999, taijijian , nandao , and nangun were added. That same year,
126-429: The 15th WWC in 2019, the competition consisted of a creative group-set (jiti) event with certified and celebrity judges as a demonstration event. The 16th WWC will also consist of a demonstration event. Last updated after the 2019 World Wushu Championships . The sum totals of gold, silver and bronze medals are not equal for the following reasons: Chinese Wushu Association The Chinese Wushu Association (CWA)
140-824: The CWA ordered practitioners not to self-appoint themselves as masters. The CWA is the official national wushu federation of China which is recognized by the International Wushu Federation . It is also part of the Wushu Federation of Asia (WFA), a continental organization of the IWUF. The CWA is a part of the General Administration of Sport of China , All-China Sports Federation , and the Chinese Olympic Committee . The CWA consists of various technical committees for various styles of wushu as well as other committees dedicated to promotion, management, and research. The current chairman
154-622: The IOC in 2002. The IWUF fell short of having wushu becoming an Olympic sport in 2008, but the IOC allowed them to host an international wushu competition alongside the 2008 Summer Olympics , which was known as the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament . During the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing , Jiangsu , China, wushu was an official demonstration sport , and wushu will return to the Youth Olympics in 2026. The IWUF hoped for inclusion in
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#1732801024939168-764: The IWUF are the President and the Executive Board, the Secretariat, the Congress which meets every two years, and various technical committees. The IWUF's headquarters are located in Lausanne , Switzerland and Beijing , China. The current president is Zhongwen Gou of China (2019-present). As of 2020, there are 155 national federations affiliated with the IWUF which are organized under the following continental federations: On October 3, 1990 in Beijing during
182-466: The ratification of the third set of compulsory routines, additional events for compulsory changquan, nanquan, and taijiquan were held at the WWC that year as well as in 2015. The 2015 WWC also introduced traditional events: men's xingyiquan and dadao, and women's baguazhang and shuangjian. These traditional events would reappear at the 14th and 15th WWCs though men's dadao was replaced with shuangdao. Also in
196-438: The second set of compulsory routines were approved, and thus in the 6th WWC in 2001, the old and new compulsory routine events were held simultaneously. During the next rendition in 2003, duilian and women's sanda were added. Then in 2005 with the rules revision and new scoring system, compulsory routines were discontinued. The following rendition in 2007 introduced incidental music for taijiquan and taijijian events. In 2013 after
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